Record stores in St. John's

St. John's, NL has 4 record stores on the map. That's 4 record shops mapped around St. John's. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Bring a want-list, but leave room for the find you didn't know you needed.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around St. John's (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include No Equal Records and Fred's Records, plus Music Collection & Dance Corner. If a record shop's missing from St. John's's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The St. John's record lineup

4 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in St. John's

1 of the 4 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

The St. John's record crawl

The efficient St. John's record crawl strings these together: No Equal Records on Clift's Baird's Cove, Fred's Records, Music Collection & Dance Corner on 444 Torbay Road, and Long and McQuade — 4 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for St. John's

How the regulars work St. John's's bins:

• Note the shop's specialties at No Equal Records. Every shop leans somewhere — soul, punk, jazz, classical. Find the lean that matches yours, then dig the others anyway.
• Learn the grading at Fred's Records. Mint, near mint, very good — and check whether the grade is visual or play-graded. A visual VG+ can play like an EX.
• Hit the new-arrivals bin first. That's where fresh stock lands before anyone else sees it. The good stuff rarely survives the week.
• Ask the staff what's new. Shop staff know what's just come in and what's about to. One question can save an hour of digging.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around St. John's — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in St. John's can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 4 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 4 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.